The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-17
Notes and Opinions.


keepers.
ABosToN man calls loudly for guide
boards in towns where there are sum-
mer resorts.
THE state papers discovered that it
was rather early to open the canvass
for the governorship.
THE Boston Herald frets badly be-
cause the republicans will not let the
mugwumps name the republican presi-
dental ticket.
STRONG men of individual strength,
not the sons of strong fathers, is what
the republican party needs in its lead
ers.-Ld,Urence Citizen.
In the New Hampshire legislature
the senate has killed the house bill pro-
viding for premiums for the production
of cereals and other farm produce.
IT has been a big year for corners;
also bad one. The coffee, wheat,
prune and cotton corners were "busted'
in regular and gratifying succession.
THE peace footing of the armies of
Europe is 100000 men, the war foot
ing between 100000 and II 100000.
And the people are footing the bills all
the time.
THE sea-serpent has not visited Long
Branch this season, but Higgins, the
trusted representative of this reform
administration, is there, and what
more do they want?
OFFICIAL returns from one hundred
ten counties in Kentucky make the ma
iority of Buckner (democraD 6,74S
over all other candidates. This is
much less than the democrats claimed
it would be week ago.
A GREAT and crying evil is the per-
sistent neglect of many people to pay
their small bills. Though the indi-
vidual amounts may be small the ag-
gregate is large, and their payment
would help all kinds of business.
THERE is strong sentiment in New
Hampshire in favor of return to an
nual legislative sessions. Interviews
with prominent leading men in both
parties develop the fact that biennial
sessions do not give satisfaction.
The less paternal law we have in
this country the better. So far as pos
sible let the people take care of them
selves and their property, without guild
ance or assistance from the institutions
of government.-NeW York Sun.
ACCORDING to Henry Watterson the
President is regarded down in Kentucky
"with a kind of complacent good
humor as a well-meaning and obstinate
favorite of fortune, who cares very lit
tie what happens so it doesn't happen
to him."
IT is not so very long ago that the
Herald boosted that the mugwumps
" sat on the box" and drove the ad-
ministration. Now they appear to have
alighted from that lofty position and to
have taken the place of the dog under
the wagon.-BOStOn Journal.
ST. JOHN, the prohibition agitator,
made the rather strong assertion at
Wilksbarre, Pa, last week, that "no
man protesting to be a follower of
Christ could, if acting in accordance
with his professions, vote any other
than the prohibition ticket' Com
ment is unnecessary.
"WE bid Mr.. Curtis take courage of
his own achievement. He is far better
off than if he had party, for he has
both parties so closely matched that
neither dare throw him overheard. -
Springfield Republican. Bosh! The
republican party was done with Mr..
Curtis some time ago.
THE change in President Cleveland's
attitude toward civil service reform,
which has amazed the mugwumps and
delighted his own party, may be
credited to his ambition to succeed
himself. He has never permitted his
conscience to stand in the way of his
tihpltioh Whth hC hoo NcihS w NicSS
quarters. Al ony Journal
A VIEW of Boston under democratic
rule: "Almost the entire city govern
ment, including the mayor, attended a
slugging-match the other evening,
which wound up with presentation of
an IS 900 belt to the Champion John
l.. Sullivan. The presentation speech
was made by an alderman, and one of
the leading bruisers sat in the box with
the mayor"
THE scarcity of farm hands in the
wheat belt of northern Minnesota and
Dakota has become alarming, and
farmers are Offering eXorbitant wages
to save the abundant crop And yet
hundreds of iders are hanging about
the great cities and manufacturing
centers waiting for something to do, or
melting strikes and talking of methods
to abolish poverty.
THE indignation of the Boston
Herald over George William Curtis
and his reform leaguers at Newport,
because they refused longer to wash